In the conflict between the secular liberal democracy of Israel
and its reactionary religious totalitarian enemies Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran,
the western left, for some reason,
has sided with the religious totalitarians.
The Irish left follows the rest of the western left in this bizarre prejudice,
which seems to be based on
western self-loathing
rather than on logic
and standing with people like us.
The Palestinian resistance (and much of the Arab world)
is openly anti-semitic and unashamed of it
(just see their TV and schoolbooks).
The western leftists who support them claim not to be anti-semitic.
Often this is true.
Apart from the surviving remnants of old European anti-semitism,
there are a range of new, trendy
reasons why people support the Palestinians:
The normalisation of racist terrorism:
Ivana Bacik, leader of the Labour Party,
marching through Dublin on 31 Aug 2024 in front of the flag of the terrorist PFLP, which took part in the 7 October massacre.
See full size.
From here.
Hezbollah flag openly displayed at IPSC march, Dublin, Apr 2008.
From here.
Attending this demo which contained open support for Islamist terror were
David Norris,
Michael D. Higgins,
Eamonn McCann
and Mary Lou McDonald.
Do they not notice this kind of thing?
Do they not know what the Hezbollah flag looks like?
Ireland strongly opposed the
building of the life-saving
Israeli wall
in 2003.
FF governments were consistently pro-Palestinian throughout the 1980s (and since).
FG was little better.
Labour was even worse.
The Irish taxpayer has been forced to send money to the Palestinians
through the UN since 1959,
and directly since the 1980s
(and still today).
It seems that some of our money has been used to pay for
hate-filled schoolbooks
that promote jihad and Islamic terror.
Ireland was the last EU country to grant permission (in 1993)
for an Israeli embassy.
PLO terrorist dictator
Arafat
made an official visit to Ireland (1993)
before any democratically-elected Israeli prime minister ever did (1996).
The PLO terrorist even spoke before the
Oireachtas foreign affairs committee.
1980 article
about appalling statements by the
Fianna Fail Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Brian Lenihan.
He claimed the PLO was no longer a terrorist organisation, describing Arafat as a "moderate".
He claimed the IRA had no involvement with the PLO.
Arab Crimes Against Palestinians Overlooked,
Rory Miller and Alan Shatter,
Irish Times,
15 Aug 2006
- on endless Irish criticism of and demos against Israel,
yet silence on far greater killers, including the non-Israeli killers of
Palestinians.
Hyperlinked by Tony Allwright.
"The truth is that Israel's use of military force, combined over the 60 years since its birth, has caused far fewer casualties and damage than war, conflict and oppression in Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Chechnya, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Eritrea and Ethiopia (and that's only the beginning of the alphabet; if we go to countries beginning with "I", there's India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq)."
"Why was the fact that King Hussein killed more Palestinians in the course of a single month than Israel managed to do in decades never held against him, or even raised, on his visits to this country?"
Luckily, one does not have to read the Irish media.
One can read directly the American or
Israeli media online.
Ireland's Anti-Israel Bias, Joseph Puder, FrontPage, 18 Dec 2012, uses me as its main source.
But hey, where's my link?
I'm even the source of the image.
Irish Foreign Minister
Dick Spring
visits the PLO terrorist group and its leader Yasser Arafat
in East Jerusalem, June 1995,
ignoring Israeli protests.
Revolting.
But that's my country for you.
The front page of the
Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign
in 2013
supports
Islamic terrorist
Samer Issawi.
Samer Issawi was
convicted
of firing a gun at a civilian vehicle,
firing an AK47 assault rifle at civilian buses,
and manufacturing pipe bombs used in attacks on Israeli civilians.
"This included four shootings, between July 2001 and February 2002, in which Isawi and his partners fired on police cars and buses travelling between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem. In one attack, a policeman was injured and required surgery. On October 30, 2001, Isawi, together with an accomplice, fired at two students walking from the Hebrew University campus to their car in a nearby parking lot. In another case, Isawi provided guns and explosive devices to a squad, who fired on a bus. Finally, in December 2001, Isawi ordered an attack on security personnel at Hebrew University, providing a squad with a pistol and a pipebomb."
And this jihadi is a hero to the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign!
See full image.
In 2017, Mike Murphy went on a trip to the West Bank
organised by
Elaine Daly.
He expressed shock
(article, Sept 23, 2017)
that the group was thoroughly questioned by Israeli border security,
and four members of the group, including Elaine Daly, were deported.
What does Murphy leave out?
Well, Elaine Daly's site
westbanktrips.com
says (that is what the clip is above)
that she is a member of
the rabid anti-Israel groups the IPSC
and
Sadaka.
The IPSC hates Israel, defends terrorism against it, allies with actual terrorists, and marches with terrorist flags.
If anything, it is amazing that Israel let any of the IPSC-linked group in.
Elaine Daly is sister of the extremist anti-Israel politician
Clare Daly.
Mike Murphy bashing Israel with the most offensive language, Oct 2018.
At 1:33 he compares Israel to Nazi Germany, the country that exterminated most of the Jews of Europe.
Utterly disgusting.
Desmond Fennell, 6 Feb 2009, suggests the world should arm the Palestinian Islamists with better weapons (planes, tanks, etc.)
with which to fight the Israeli liberal democracy.
This foolish intellectual
seems innocently unaware of the fact that if the Palestinians
had the weaponry, they would carry out a full-scale genocide of the Jews.
The only thing stopping them is not lack of will, but rather lack of ability.
Irish intellectual
Desmond Fennell
proposes sending heavy weapons to the Islamic terrorist jihad against Israel, Feb 2009.
Jonathan Sugarman
is an Israeli Jew in Ireland who is
highly critical of Israel.
Sugarman describes Israel's actions during the
Gaza border riots
as a "massacre", June 2018.
I replied, asking what I thought was a reasonable question.
Sugarman never debated me. He just blocked me.
John Gibbons
is a climate change activist
with a sideline in anti-Israel activism.
"If Ireland were Palestine", John Gibbons, Village magazine, Aug 2014,
during the
2014 Gaza war,
makes the absurd argument,
that many Irish and British people make,
that the UK did not bomb Dublin during the Troubles.
The answer is obvious:
The Dublin government was not bombing the UK.
If it was, then airstrikes and invasion might be quite reasonable.
In Gibbons' analogy, he shows his worldview with this phrase:
"The brutality generates a reaction."
As if Hamas missiles are a "reaction" to Israeli "brutality"
or something.
He has no idea why Hamas fires missiles.
He produces a conspiracy theory that Israel attacked Gaza so as to prevent moves towards "peace".
Israel likes war, apparently.
In reality, peace for Gaza is easy.
All Hamas has to do is stop all rocket fire, forever.
He closes by proposing, like Desmond Fennell,
that heavy weapons are sent to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas:
"A far more useful step might be to offer the Palestinians some of the US-made Javelin anti-tank missile systems that the Irish military, at enormous expense, purchased."
Climate change activist
John Gibbons
proposes sending heavy weapons to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas, Aug 2014.
Gibbons responded to me by blocking me.
How John Gibbons in
July 2024
reacts to the rape, torture, murder and kidnap of female IDF soldiers.
On seeing a video of the brutal rapists holding
five battered women in Oct 2023, he sneers that:
"Those 'girls' in pic are captured IDF soldiers".
What a deeply sick man.
Note that when he wrote in July 2024,
the fate of all five women
in the video
was still unknown.
TV celebrity
Maia Dunphy
posts about Israel, but, like so many,
has not the slightest interest in hearing the Israeli view.
Maia Dunphy
on
3 Dec 2023
is frustrated that Israel will not listen to the criticism
of its war against Hamas, after the genocidal Hamas massacre of Jews.
I tell her why Israel won't listen.
She responded by blocking me.
Sadly, it
looks like just another
pro-Palestinian-Islamofascist group.
They visit Lebanon and visit every anti-Israel activist and killer they can find,
yet no one pro-Israel.
They link to the website of the Islamofascist mass killers of women and children
Hizbollah
with the simple tag-line
"Resistance organisation in Lebanon".
The challenge:
Find any
pro-Israel, pro-gay or pro-atheist group
in the entire Arab Muslim world.
Other issues
The Irish "Peace" Society is
against violence by democracies,
but sympathetic to violence by non-democracies.
It has no problem with what they call the
"liberation" (what a joke) of Lebanon by Hizbollah,
but it
opposed
(and here)
the real liberation of Iraq.
They also
entertained
the
Cuban Ambassador
and the Pakistani
Ambassador
in 2003.
These
representatives of two non-democracies
were listened to with respect instead of abuse.
I note the Israeli, US and British Ambassadors were not entertained.
Their error was in being free democracies.
Some updates:
Congratulations to the Irish Peace Society for
protesting
the visit of the Premier of
China,
May 2004!
At last we agree on something!
Victoria Firmo-Fontan,
the "peace studies"
professor
who brought the students on the pro-Hizbollah
tour of Lebanon,
turns up in Jan 2005 wanting to be
"embedded"
with the
Iraqi fascist "resistance"
as they suicide bomb women and children
in their attempt to stop democracy.
Bruce Bawer
has a nice put-down of "peace studies" programs.
"For the Peace Racket, to kill innocents in cold blood is to buy the right to dialogue, negotiation, concessions - and power. So students learn to identify "insurgent" or "militant" groups with the populations they purport to represent."
"Peace" groups inevitably do not have any clue
how to actually bring about world peace.
Jews Turn into Apes and Pigs in an Clay-mation Film for Children on Hizbullah TV.
Al-Manar TV (Hezbollah TV).
Dec 7, 2005.
This
portrays the story in the Koran where
Jews are turned into apes and pigs.
Among all this one-sided opinion,
Power reveals he believes in conspiracy theories about
the USS Liberty incident of 1967.
Instead of agreeing with the US military that
it was an error,
he thinks Israel deliberately killed Americans:
"it was widely accepted in the US naval community that their vessel was attacked to prevent the US interference in stopping a war Israel was winning."
John Pilger
is the classic example of this narrow world-view.
Only the desire to oppose the west
can explain the strange, highly-selective collection of
human-rights causes
the modern left supports.
This is why they almost never complain about Islamic or communist regimes,
for example.
Asad Abu Sharkh
gives a speech in Dublin praising Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas,
after Israel killed him, Oct 2024.
More here.
He openly mourns Yahya Sinwar ("Abu Ibrahim").
He pays tribute to
"the Palestinian hero Executive Commander Abi Ibrahim".
This raises the question:
Why is Abu Sharkh in Ireland? Who decided to let this terrorist supporter into Ireland?
We have enough home-grown terrorists and terrorist supporters without importing more.
Not the worst, just incredibly naive.
As Israel defends itself against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran in Sept 2024,
UCD academic
Aidan Regan
asks why can't the Israelis just choose peace.
Silly Israelis.
The solution was easy all along! Just choose peace!
Pop singers
Jedward
call for a boycott of Israel, 13 May 2021.
"Israelity" (2009),
a nasty, menacing, anti-Israel song from Irish singer
Mickey Joe Harte.
He is angry with Israel for responding to years of Hamas rocket fire.
The song is quite menacing, saying to Israel:
"you come and stir the hate in me"
and "you give them reasons now to fight"
and "this is war"
and "this is not the end .. this is only just beginning".
Irish rapper
Aodhan Chezney Conlon
poses with a mural of the terrorist
PFLP,
the butchers of the Jewish children of
Itamar.
This features in the video of his anti-Israel song
"Palestinian Child" (2015).
So violence is the answer to Gaza's problems is it?
Great contribution.
The message of this song, like so many other left-wing statements, is to say to Hamas:
"Carry on doing what you are doing."
A threatening, passive-aggressive mural in Cork.
Words: "Free Palestine. Make Hummus not War!"
Picture: Scarf over face. Symbol of intifada, i.e. a barbaric and unnecessary war.
From Izz Cafe, Cork, Aug 2021.
An actual "anti war" mural would condemn the intifada. That would be so cool.
Top: Irish Unity,
a pro-SFIRA account, says:
"no human is illegal".
Bottom: Irish Unity
says that Jews living in Judea and Samaria are illegal.
Note: The bottom tweet is complaining about the
Duma arson attack,
which had only happened that day.
Far from "not caring", a huge investigation began.
Israel eventually caught the culprit and he was sentenced to three life terms for murder.
The
"Gaels Against Genocide"
rally in Belfast on 22 June 2024
carried the flag of the PFLP terrorists who took part in the genocidal attack on 7 October.
Was it an anti-genocide or a pro-genocide rally?
Screenshot from video.
See another shot
from here.
A pride flag, plus "ceasefire now", marching in Dublin with "kill the Jews" terrorists, Oct 2024.
Sums up the incoherent, depraved Palestinian cause.
From here.
"Israel is the cancer in foreign affairs."
- Irish leftist Vincent Browne, Oct 2012.
"The Zionist regime and the Zionists are a cancerous tumour."
-
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Aug 2012.
"Arab and Islamic nations could counter this Zionist enemy through unity and solidarity
...
It is the time for the Islamic Ummah to confront this cancerous tumor and wipe it out from the region."
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad, May 2013.
"anybody in the world, with faith or without faith, must come together in order to eradicate this cancer from the body of humanity."
- Azzam Tamimi, 2006.
"For us, it is a problem of whether our nation can ever recover its health, whether the Jewish spirit can ever really be eradicated. Don't be misled into thinking you can fight a disease without killing the carrier, without destroying the bacillus. Don't think you can fight racial tuberculosis without taking care to rid the nation of the carrier of that racial tuberculosis. This Jewish contamination will not subside, this poisoning of the nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from our midst."
- Adolf Hitler,
Aug 1920.
"[The Jews] want to present themselves to the world as if they have rights,
but, in fact, they are foreign bacteria - a microbe unparalleled in the world. ...
May [the god Allah] annihilate this filthy people ... I condemn .. whoever believes that they are human beings. They are not human beings. They are not people."
- Hamas Deputy Minister,
Feb 2010.
"It's such a shame that the history teachers in our school never taught us [about Palestine]
but they are the first to start brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler. What have the Jews done good in this world??"
-
Women's officer
of the left-wing
Respect Party, UK,
Sept 2012.
"Oh here's to Adolph Hitler;
Who made the Britons squeal;
Sure before the fight is ended;
They will dance an Irish reel."
-
The IRA, Nov 1940.
"During the past number of years we have seen a constant and heavy influx of foreign Jews to N.E. Ulster.
...
The Republic will rid the country of such vermin."
-
The IRA, Nov 1940.
"The Israelis are all over this place like a rash - they are lobbying no end."
- Martina Anderson (Sinn Fein), May 2016.
"Israel is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet."
- Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Sinn Fein),
June 2006.
"Israel is not a normal state. It is an apartheid and racist state. It was built on blood and it also survives on blood.
... Our support is always with the Palestinian people and never with the Zionists because they are murdering bastards.
That is what they are - murdering bastards."
- Gino Kenny (People Before Profit),
May 2018.
"From the Liffey to the flats, Israel is a bunch of rats"
- Chant at anti-Israel march in Dublin, May 2021.
